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xzvcnx

whenever you look up "engines can't solve this puzzle" this comes up. first of all, lichess engine thinks this is a +5 advantage, not a forced mate.

on move 4, black does not have to fork the king and queen...

drdos7
xzvcnx wrote:

whenever you look up "engines can't solve this puzzle" this comes up. first of all, lichess engine thinks this is a +5 advantage, not a forced mate.

on move 4, black does not have to fork the king and queen...

Actually there was an engine from all the way back in 2006-2008 that could solve this study in mere seconds, here is Rybka version 2.2n2 from December 2006 taking 2 seconds to find the winning first move and show a winning score:

By the way, if you wanted a free Rybka version 2.3.2a that can also solve this puzzle you can still download it from here:

http://www.rybkachess.com/index.php?auswahl=Demo+version

Even though it's a "demo" version it is still fully functional with absolutely no limitations.